The explosive growth of the Internet since the last round of general election debates has created new options for delivering information and eliciting public involvement. Centre College has established electronic partnerships, new Web sites, and special projects to use the wired world to study the election and the political process.

VeepWorld: vpcentre.net

As a service to high school teachers and students throughout the nation, Centre has created a substantial original Web site exploring the office of Vice President. History buffs can explore loads of interesting facts. Teachers can get lesson plans. Students can take a trivia quiz (Do you know which VP won the Nobel Peace Prize? Which one was charged with murder? Which one married while in office, at age 76?). [Contact: Mary Quinn Kerbaugh 859-238-5722 • kerbaugh@centre.edu]

Vice Presidential Web Poll

Throughout June and July, Centre hosted a Vice Presidential Web Poll, inviting American voters to indicate which running mates they preferred for presidential candidates George Bush and Al Gore. The front-runners after 900 voters had visited the site: Colin Powell, Elizabeth Dole and John McCain on the Republican side; Dianne Feinstein and Kathleen Kennedy Townsend on the Democratic side. Results remain available on-line: www.centre.edu/web/news/webpollre.html. [Contact: Clarence Wyatt 859-238-5243 · wyattc@centre.edu]

Ask-a-Mac Knowledge Center

The Centre College Communications Office has created the Ask-a-Mac knowledge center to insure that media representatives get quick, accurate answers to their questions during debate week. At specially equipped computer stations in the debate media hall and at the debate help desk, media reps can search a Centre College knowledge database for answers to basic questions about the debate, the college and the surrounding region. Developed on Macintosh computers using FileMaker
Pro software, the project received corporate support from the Apple computer company and FileMaker software corporation. [Contact: Patsi Trollinger 859-238-5719 · trllngrp@centre.edu]

 
The high school connection: iHigh.com and the NFHS

Centre College, iHigh.com, and the National Federal of High Schools (NFHS) have formed a collaboration that has been recognized by the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) as an official “voter education partner” with the CPD. iHigh.com is the official Web site for NFHS and is rapidly becoming the premier Internet site for high school organizations. For the Vice Presidential debate, iHigh.com and NFHS expect to host a chat room and opinion polls for high school students. [Contact for iHigh.com: Henry Bebrowsky 859-225-3213 · henry.bebrowsky@iHigh.com]

Contacts in the Centre Communications Office

• Mike Norris • 859-238-5718 • norris@centre.edu
• Patsi B. Trollinger • 859-238-5719 • trllngrp@centre.edu

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